Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press it of fade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Ca Eltoh Winnipeg r3g 3c1 by f publications Western limited Telephone 9439331 second class mail registration number 086 do Mald Nicol acting pub Shet r s Malone chairman Peter Mclintock editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Maurice we Sterol Ottawa editor re Shelford president general manager an eerie parallel there Are legitimate grounds for questioning the manner in which prime minister Joe Clark made his controversial decision to move the embassy of Canada in Israel from f Al Aviv to whatever the merits or demerits of the the Way in which it was reached should be of considerable and possibly to All Canad when he was in in january during his world Clark refused to commit himself when asked by israeli Premier begin to support a move of the of the request he said Only i want to take a very close look and a very hard look at this was similar to the stance taken by most foreign political leaders who visit Israel and Are asked the same the reason that they react this Way is that they Are aware that placing in1 Jerusalem could be construed As backing israeli claims to sovereignty Over the whole the Eastern half of which was taken from Jordan by military Conquest in the 1967 six Day along with Clark on his Israel visit were two conservative candidates for Toronto Glitton and Toronto St constituencies with important jewish rating during the election in Clark said that now that the Camp David peace talks and accords Between Israel and Egypt had reached a satisfactory it would be appropriate for him to announce if he would move the embassy from Tel Aviv to whom did Clark consult before he made this sensitive fraught As it is with economic and possibly military consequences for Canada As far As can be established from his Public his Only discussions of the Issue were with begin and with the two conserva Tive there is no available evidence that Clark discussed this Issue with the parliamentary conservative with the party with constituency officials and work or with Ordinary conservative party there is no sign that he held any discussions with the Canadian academic with experienced officials of the department of external with officials of the Canadian embassy in Tel with officials and representatives at the United or with senior officials of the government that has been doing most to obtain a Middle East that of the United by making the decision during the he automatically excluded from any voice in the decision those members of his own party whom he has appointed to Flora his new external affairs has arrived in office with a foreign policy commitment in whose formula Tion neither she nor her department officials played any by making his decision during the election Clark excluded from the discussion the entire parliament of he did not wait for a resumption of parliament and set aside time for a foreign affairs debate in the House of commons or the he thus acted As if parliament has no role to play in such a what is so curious about this method of reaching an important decision is that it bears an eerie parallel to Many of the complaints that Clark has consistently made about the prime ministerial style of Pierre he has accused Trudeau of having contempt for of bypassing of holding the of its members in Low of taking from it the right to play a serious part in formulating policies that May effect on the lives of All he said that Trudeau made too Many decisions without listening Only to a tiny coterie of advisers who shared his views that Trudeau Washie kind of Leader who ignored his Cabinet ministers while Clark was a team Man who would act in the opposite it was to be one of Clarks first priorities to restore the importance and usefulness of parliament to Canadas political the projected embassy move is the first major decision that Clark has his manner of making it will make Many canadians wonder exactly what difference of style is supposed to have occurred since Clark replaced encouraging concept a major area in which Federal government policy May reflect the change in government is that of a hint of what May be in store for Canadas communication Industry is contained in a speech Given two months ago in Toronto by Don who served As conservative communications critic before he became transport minister in the new while opposition speeches Are generally More Blunt than those by people who have ministerial if some of the concerns expressed by Mazankowski find their Way into new legislation canadians should the brightest part of the speech indicates that a conservative government in Ottawa May be prepared to travel the same deregulation Road As that being used by the Federal communications for is not horrified when he looks at his Home which has an effective Cable service to per cent of its Urban he regards the popularity of Cable and its program Ming As a demonstration of the wishes of the and not necessarily As a threat to cultural so Mazankowski a conservative govern ment would lean on tax incentives As a Means of producing More Canadian rather than imposing quotas on what foreign programs could be he says he supports this change simply because the the hard Way with the Sun the grass growing and leaves appearing on the it is the time to Start thinking about enjoying that but Beautiful it is also the time to attract others to sunny and Money hungry therefore it is understandable that the tourism depart ment should be hard at sending representatives literature to other parts of the continent in an attempt to sell the the Money would definitely As tourism minister Norma Price told a conference of the tourism and convention association of Manitoba last the advertising Campaign of More than would be initiated in order to reveal Manitoba wealth of untapped tourist some of that Money is being spent on sending Manitoba government representatives to Breezy Point re in order to convince members of the Manitoba bar association that they should hold their next convention Back Home in does that make sense Price had said the Campaign would concentrate on our most easily accessible but they certainly seem to be doing it the hard i restrictions that have been imposed during the past ten years have not fostered the rapid development of a viable and internationally competitive Canadian program production he suggests that a conservative communications policy would integrate programming with the production of communications so that manufacturers and programmers alike could get away from the present situation in As he describes if you Are prevented from making it at you can try to make it in the at Home with the recent decision by the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission which allows a nip telecommunications to compete with Bell he said a conserva Tive government would not limit your the Cable operators entering into the provision of business services such As fire and police Protection by Way of even though some of these services could be competing with similar services provided by Telephone Mazankowski spoke of assessing the benefits of Cross ownership of to broadcasters and Cable companies in Small an idea that has run contrary to past As a Means of giving no Urban residents Access to More educational and entertainment the concept sounds does Mazan Kows Kis Promise of a White paper on communications by May it will not be the first study of the one such prepared by a committee headed by British Columbia supreme court Justice and handed to the former Liberal government before the May Well become part of the new it is to be hoped that the new study will consider with some care one Means of getting around the increasingly Complex problems that Are created when and attempt to catch up with the solution is to have bureaucracy drop out of the and regulate itself out of sense needed there is bound to be grudging admiration by some for the Ontario lottery Winner who collected his major quit his and is now collecting every two weeks in unemployment the action May generate admiration from those not As fortunate As the it cannot be considered to be right and proper for someone who has just had his personal financial worries eliminated to collect from Public funds that Are designed to protect against financial it is surely a situation that cries out for common sense interpretation of unemployment insurance bureaucrats Are Quick enough to complicate dozens of lives through interpretative decisions that have less Why not see the situation for what it is purple dialogue of the deaf by lome Mcdougall special to the free if i could have per words read in the last three years about the advantages and the dangers of nuclear i would be Able to afford a very Fine dinner for two in a posh i had to base my claim on the firm conclusions i have been Able to draw from what i have i could press my nose against Mcdonalds win but i could not afford to go inside for a do you feel any More confident about your own ideas on this matter is it that we outsiders Are All so stupid that we cannot or is there some Quality in the debate which makes it nearly impossible to match up the opposing arguments and to draw a conclusion from what is said i suggest that we should not accept All the blame for the great debate Between the the opponents of nuclear Power has been a dialogue of the each group has a great Deal to each is passionately convinced that it embodies Wisdom and moderation and is defending the Long run Public interest and since each starts from different Basic neither one is Able to Muster any respect for the arguments of the no enlightenment if this so called debate continues to run on its present lines it will end in not in the proponents of the use of nuclear Energy Are grained in modern their arguments fall into two main Cate first the nature of modern civilization and the inevitability of balancing costs and the modern differs from All preceding Ages in Only one major respect the conscious exploration of nature and Law and the application of that knowledge to in crease mans nothing did More to Speed up this process than the application of mechanical Power based on nonrenewable there is a world of difference Between Watts first steam engine with its Tenpound pressure of saturated steam and the modern Power Plant using superheated steam at pounds or but what is important is that the develop ment has been continuous and Cumuli nuclear Power stations Are merely the latest step in that the people who resist their development and Extension May be tender minded visionaries whose understanding is limited but if they understand the implications of what they then they Are wreckers beside whom the luddites Pale into what they Are doing is to throw themselves against the cutting Edge of modern civilization and demand that All material Progress this is not a simple demand to avoid a particular Mode of electric Power it is a demand that Western civilization change of course there Are risks involved in the use of nuclear there in the use of Fossil men die in the production and the transportation of Coal and the combustion products in the air result in bronchial damage to millions in the areas surrounding such Power Only an ignoramus would expect a costless that is not How the world a special Case the Case of nuclear Power is a special careful design can develop a Plant in which the exposure to radiation is far less than that faced by people living in the precambrian the air is better surrounding it than around a Fossil fuel the annual death rate in mining and transportation of Coal is avoided but Over against that must be set the relatively improbable risk of a total breakdown in which All life would be wiped out in the neighbourhood and a Harvest of deaths by cancer would be reaped downwind Over the next 30 of course it May never but if it most of the opponents of nuclear development regard All the foregoing As unrealistic playing with the Industrial development argument they both minor and careful use of the existing volume of Power produced would carry a further major Industrial we have been prodigal in our use of heat and let us now develop a conserved insulate instead of burning More and in various ways find out How to make do with we would be surprised How much could be accomplished if we set our minds to the appearance of carefully Balanc ing risks and benefits is an Bomina nobody can equate a reduction of a Hal cent per kilowatt hour in the Cost of electricity against death by cancer of a child who is exposed to radiation while an or to the impairment of the Gene Structure leading to physical or mental defects in successive Genera the differential calculus May be a Nice logical tool to apply to things of secondary importance but it does not make sense when it touches issues of life and death and the pollution of the genetic even if no nuclear Plant Ever Breaks Down and recent events at Harrisburg show that that possibility is not neg Ligi the waste products Are a con Stant threat to All life for thousands of engineers can talk of finding disposal but the risks to later generations cannot be completely we and our children will have to live with the we should have a voice in All any student can do is to keep clearly in mind that we have come to a Fork in the once we have chosen one or the other it is going to be very difficult to change our a continuous threat if we choose the Well travelled path of Industrial development with More and More Power each we Are also choosing a continuous threat to physical health if we insist on Thermal development a potentially devastating threat if we elect to permit nuclear it May never develop but the risk is always j we decide the world is going too and we want to then we must remember that setting an upper limit to Power development has far reaching we might also remember How easily people accept the death of to people every year in automobile some ten per cent of All Hospital Beds Are occupied by Automo bile Accident How Many people Are so deeply concerned Over such a toll that they want to do something about it and if one is concerned by the danger of a possible nuclear Accident in Power Why Are there not More protests against the enormous mass of nuclear weapons which could wipe out whole nations lome Mcdougall is a former professor of economics at Queen death penalty the in my has been guilty of Bias regarding the death pen Alty for the Only Means presented by the press is by the electric chair or the Gas the death penalty should be exacted by a painless method such As an Over dose of some drug putting the person to sleep or even by a firing the press has dramatized and Emo tonal sized the troubled life and painful death of the the victim of the often heinous murder their fear and pain is Travis Mccullough i think capital punishment should he private litter the other Day i met a City of Winni Peg employee gathering up litter from Carlton Street at i called his attention to the filthy mess on the hedge fronting on Carlton Street on the Side of the parking lot behind the Bank of he replied that it was private property and not the cites in it belongs to Imperial towers who own the Lovely building on the Northwest Corner of Broadway and the filth and the which the Shrub cannot Are not Only unsightly but is it not time Imperial towers got Busy and cleaned up the mess on an otherwise Beautiful Street Ella Dack Winnipeg seeks family i am trying to locate any children or descendants of Percival Alexander Crozier he was born in 1888 in Montreal and was living at 225 Camp Bell in i would be most grateful to hear from anyone who can put me in touch with this Thomas Hughes 5636 Western Avenue Chevy Maryland 20015 letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from the authors name will be and All letters Are subject to not our Post office the article by Mike Royko in the free june entitled Post office works to Rule fits very deserves some rebuttal from someone within the Canada Post Royko dealt with the poor postal service received by Gwen resident in an apartment Block in who had been taken out of delivery for two and who then had been unable to obtain her mail from a clerk at the Chicago Lake View Branch Post this kind of poor service simply cannot happen in Cana the supervisor of customer complaints explained to Nobbe even if the sidewalk to her own building were a Large pile of Snow up or Down the Street could take the whole Street out of no single House or apartment Block in Winnipeg is Ever refused delivery if the sidewalk is much less a whole Street for two As had happened in this Case in Chicago because of a pile of Snow somewhere on the in service May be Cut Back to first class Only on the Day after a heavy with the Carrier Refus ing to enter where very High a Navy prevents after service returns to Normal As people shovel their those people who find it impossible to shovel their walk will be refused these people will be Able to obtain their upon presen tation of appropriate at the nearest letter Carrier depot or Post Al unlike the clerk at the Lake View Branch in no clerk in simply on the basis that he was a clerk and not a letter would refuse to give a customer his outside of the heading Chicago and a reference to Federal bureaucrats in the United it is easy to read the article and be left with the impression that the incident took or at least could take in even the title fails to indicate that this is an american would it not have been for the title to have read Post office works to Rule its very the Canada Post office has enough prob lems to overcome in providing Good service to without being held to account for problems in the Post Hemminger Winnipeg silly editorials sometimes i get a Little weary with your silly ant metric after there is nothing really difficult about the metric especially the up Odate version known As there is nothing that could not be easily by any one above the level of a sixth Grade but apparently your editors Are unable to understand at least that is the impression one gets from Reading your i have been Reading the free press for most of my life and will undoubtedly continue to do actual your publication is among the Best in the but a better class of editorials would be a vast improve and i have no doubt that in due course this matter will be attended Shakespeare Winnipeg another language since coming to this wonderful coun in 1954 As a child of i have Only one it is listening to the silly never ending argument about learning another i think it is a shame that we can learn Only upon entering High school in you have the privilege and Opportunity of learning three so that upon graduating you can Converse in four my Mother had that she Speaks five languages German and Learned portuguese on her that makes her four times better than the narrow minded people who complain about learning one or Reading signs in Only one when my children were ready for i gave them the Only Chance they will Ever get in and that is to learn Only one extra by enrolling them in a 5050 program now at the age of and they Are fluently let us give our children the Opportunity to learn one More be it English or Lucy Boily Winnipeg Happy 58th birthday Prince Duke of Edin born june ;